After I wrote Monday’s blog post, I linked to it from Twitter, which now also shows up in my Facebook status. Surprisingly, a few people even clicked on it!
Via Google Analytics, I can pull up the cities (roughly) where the visitors came from:
- Ankara
- Big Rapids
- Clawson
- Jackson
- Lansing
- Munich
- Oslo
- Southfield
- Boston
This seems both mundane and amazing. The fact that people from all over the world visit one’s website used to be amazing, but I’ve gotten used to that over the past decade or so. What I currently find amazing is that all those clicks came from friends and associates — these are people I know and who know me. My post was just an anecdote, so it’s almost as if this were a globally distributed water cooler conversation. (But, hey, nobody left a comment!) Is this what the future looks like?